The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-10-13

nam us sale reaches enormous pTOpO[-
tions. Over fourteen million pounds
of leaf tobacco sold in Durham since
Oct. lst, 1886. The farmers bring
their tabacco to Durham because it is
a steady market all the year round. In
summer and winter, we'll as in spring
and fall, the buyers are upon the mar
ket and the highest prices are paid.
The output of manufactured tobacco
for the year amounted to about 4,OO0,-
600 pounds of smoking tobacco about
100, 900 pounds of chewing tobacco,
SO, 900 pounds of snuff, and $50, 600,
600 cigarettes. W
North Carolina Farmer: Whatever
will benefit the farming interests will
benefit all others. If the reduction Of
interest will promote the farmers pros
perity, it will also in the long run
benefit the whole body polite
North Carolina takes the premium
over Pennsylvania. The grass and
grain exhibit gotten up and exhibited
at Asheville, and the Mt. Holly Fair
and Institute by Capt. Nat. Atkinson,
was sent to the Pennsylvania State
Fair, and took the first premium, as it
has in every place shown, and yet, we
do not make enough of these articles
to supply the home demand. We
show what we can do, but fail in what
we ought to do. Shame on our farm
ers.
Sanford E,npress: Mr.. A. F. Page,
of Blues Crossing, Mr.. D. A. Melon
aid, of Carthage, and Mr.. J. M. Ora
ham, of Jackson Springs, have formed
themselves into a company to build a
railroad from Blues Crossing on the
R. & A. road to Troy in Montgomery
county. They will build this road Is
miles without a charter as these gen
tleman W. l3 miles of land in a
solid body extending Is miles west Of
Blues Crossing. In this l3 miles of
railroad there will not be a cut more
than ten feet deep. This road will
penetrate a body of the finest timbered
pine land in North Carolina. 1t is
indeed a big project, but its promot-
ers are business men, and will no
doubt build it.
Wilmington Messenger: The gas
works at Greensboro, now use Chat
ham county, IN. c. coal. This is an
entirely new sourse Of supply. 1t is
only since the opening of the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad that
these mines have become accessible,
yet located as they are, only forty
miles from Greensboro. The road taps
the coal-feld country and the supply
is abundant. Colonel A. H. Left
wich, of Lynchburg, manages the
plant here, and we have it on the au
thority of those operating the works
that in reproducing capacity the
Chatham coal is fifty per cent. supe-
rior to the East Tennessee article hith-
erto used. The North Carolina coal
began to be used last april. ~
/Goldsboro Argus: Mr.. II. B. Parker's
$50 worth Of ensilage to the acre,
which we told of yesterday, if CONVEX
ted into beef would be worth 500.
OF this at least $50 would be clear
Can anybody equal this max
ing cotton? If not why will not
farmers raise corn and at the same
enrich, their land ? Mr.. Parker
is engaged in filling his silo with
choice corn. He has about six acres
of corn, planted after his pea crop,
which he is cutting now, and he thinks
his crop worth about $50 per acre.
The crop was only plowed twice and
never bowed at all. It is easy to be
seen, therefore, what a snug little
profit there is to the acre. Next week
he will SOW the same land in rye there
by making three crops which he has
On the same land this year. Of
course this requires heavy manuring,
but then it pays.
Raleigh Nevs and Observer: Messrs.
Alfread Williams & Co., of this city,
will give at the next session of the
Assembly a beautiful solid
gold watch, stem-winder and stem-set-
ter, chatelaine model, handsomely en-
graved, for the best examination in
their Moore's School History of North
The examination will be
publicly held in the Assembly Hall,
and competition will be open only to
all actual teachers. Thirty questions
will be submitted, and written answers
are to be handed in for inspection by
the examining hoard Former s11c.